Quotes About Moral

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Liberalism: for every complicated problem there exists both an intellectual and a moral solution and they coincide.

For the history of our country during the last hundred and sixty years is eminently the history of physical, of moral, and of intellectual improvement. Those who compare the age on which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in their imagination may talk of degeneracy and decay: but no man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present

God loves us toughly enough not to allow us to be happy with our sins. The recollection of sin rightly brings misery of conscience. How else could moral awareness be saved from sentimentality? The deepest human happiness, we learn, is grounded in holiness - God's holy love and our responsive attempts to reflect it fittingly.

In this sense every serious choice has a tragicomic dimension. For it is impossible to be a human being without choosing, and it is impossible to choose without value denials, and it is impossible to deny values without guilt. That is a very simple though, but it forms the core definition of guilt: an awareness of significant value loss for which I know myself to be responsible. Guilt is the self-knowing of moral loss.